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A. E. RUDDOOK & E. E; E. BAILEY. MACHINE FOR FEATHER EDGING THE SOLES OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

No. 398,282. Patented Peb.,19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEicE.

AUSTIN E. RUDDOUK AND EPHRAIM E. E. BAILEY, OF HAVERHILL, MASSA- Cl-IUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO T. S. RUDDOCK & SON, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR FEATHER-EDGING SOLES FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,282, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed October 30, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AUSTIN E. RUDDOOK and EPHRAIM E. E. BAILEY, both of Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Feather- Edging Soles for Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for feather-edging the outer soles of boots and shoes in which the stitches connecting the outer sole to the upper and inner sole are laid in a channel formed in the outer sole.

The invention has for its object to provide devices whereby the outer surface of the outer sole may be brought to a thin edge to give the shoe a neat appearance without cutting away any of the outer surface of the sole, the grain-surface of the outersolebeing extended to the edge of the sole as when the edge is not reduced in thickness.

To this end our invention. consists in the improvements which we will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the portion of a machine having our im n'ovements attached thereto. Fig. 2 represents an end view of the same, parts being shown in dotted lines for the sake of clearness of description. Fig. represents a View of the side opposite to that shown in Fig. 1. Fig. it a perspective view of the knife. Fig. is a perspective view of the guide. Fig. (5 represents a sectional view of an outer sole after having been operated upon by our improved machine.

The same letters of reference refer to the same parts in all of the figures.

In the drawings, (t represents a portion of a machine to which on r improvemel'lts may be attached.

1 represents a feed-roll attached to a shaft, 0, journaled in hearings in said machine and adapted to be rotated by any suitable means.

d represents a knife adj ustably secured to the machine, having a cutting-edge projecting above the upper portion of roll I). Said cutting-edge is preferably curved or slanted and formed to cut from the bottom of the channel to and through the flesh side of a sole and to Serial No. 289,572. (No model.)

remove a part of the outer edge of said flesh side. The knife d is provided with aslot, 6, through which passes a bolt, 7", screw-threaded into the frame of the machine. This 0011- struction permits the knife to be easily adjusted, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 1.

g represents a supporting-roll journaled in bearin in a block, 7L, attached to an arm, 1', of the machine, and adapted to raise or lower according to the thickness of the sole to be operated upon. The sole to be operated upon or feathei edged is placed between the feed-rolls b and g, which operation raises roll g and guide j so that said guide coincides with the channel in said sole into which it is adapted to enter, as shown in Fig. 5. The said guide j is ad justably attached to the block h, and is arranged thereon and in the machine so as to be in front of the cuttingedge of knife (I. Said guide is provided with a foot, is, having an oifset, 1, formed to enter the channel cut in the edge of the sole, the arrangement being suchv that the feed-roll b crowds the sole toward said guide during the cutting operation, causing-the projcctingportion [of the guide to come in engagement with the bottom of the channel, thus effecting an accurate cutting action of the knife. The upper part of guide also raises the channel and prevents it being cutby the knife during the operation of featlienedging. (See Fig. 5.)

@y the means above described we are so enabled to cut away the flesh side of the outer sole as to permit the grain-surface m, Fig. ii, of an outer sole to be extended beyond the edge of the flesh side a of the same, as will be readily seen. \Ve do not limit ourselves to the machine here shown. and described, to which our improvements are attached, as they maybe applied to any suitable machine for feathenedging soles without departing from the spirit of our invention.

In Fig. 5 we have shown a perspective view of the guide j and a portion of a sole,j', before being operated upon. Said sole has a channel, 1, into which the projection Z of the guide enters, the arrangement being such that the channel-flap is held in a raised posi tion, as shown, which prevents the same from being cut by theknife (1 during the trimming operation. This projecting portionl of the guide, whereby the liability of cutting the channel during feather-edging is obviated, constitutes an important feature of our invention. l

Ve claim- 1. In a feather-edging machine, the c01nbination, With the work feeding and supporting rolls, of the guide formed to enter the channel cut in the edge of the sole and keep the channel flap elevated and the curved or slanted knife arranged behind said guide and formed to cut from the bottom of the channel to and through the flesh side of the sole, and to remove a part of the outer edge of said flesh-sole, all arranged and operating as described.

2. In afeat her-edgingmachine having suitable Work supporting and feeding devices, the guide having a projection to enter the channel in the sole and elevate the flap thereof, combined With the knife having a curved and beveled cutting-edge, and arranged behind the guide and adapted to enter the Work below the flap and feather-edge the sole, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 8th day of August, A. D'. 1888.

AUSTIN E. RUDDOOK. EPHRAIM E. E. BAILEY.

Vi tnesses:

FRANK M. WHITMAN, ANTHONY HAMEL. 

